The Park of my Heart-Coolidge Park! by grishaV1
Coolidge Park is right on the river front of the north shore, and of course my first thing of must-do activities. College kids, families, everyone comes to hang out here also. Its a wide, beautiful green space where you can have picnics, family gatherings, sit and study, play lawn games, or whatever you want to do. Also there are pavilions and stages for weddings or musical events that go on at times. Summer or winter it is having people all around. In warmer months, you will see children come from all over to play in the interactive fountain. Sometimes you see grown-ups also come to park, decide they want to cool off and run right in. You can dry as time passes :-) I used to work at the beautiful carousel. Over a century old, nicely refurbished and kept in excellent condition the carousel, or "roundabout", is fun for all ages. Children of all ages can ride this huge attraction. They have carousel animals of all kinds to ride on, rabbits, frogs, goats, cats, goldfish, horses of course, and new little dinosaur, which is so cute! I´ve only ridden in a couple of times in the past, I would usually the one taking tickets. Its fun to watch people old and young alike all start smiling when it goes around. Tickets are very reasonable, free for very small children,$.50 for 5-12, and $1.00 for everyone else.
Other things to do: Down near the river there is a riverboat/restaurant you can take tea at or a meal. I´ve only taken fotos of it, never been inside but people say its nice enough, specializing in seafood.
There was/is a climbing walk under one of the bridges struts. I am not sure it is still there, but if you walk down near the walkline path you can look left towards the bridge to see if they are still there, if you are interested.
